by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 21, 2014 | Living in Place
A reader recently emailed me asking for writing advice. I complied. “You don’t need a literary background to write. You do need something to say and a desire to learn how to control language so that you can say it as you mean it, to reach the audience you intend to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 8, 2014 | Living in Place
I’ve retired from teaching countless times, and always find myself drawn back to the classroom, sometimes for the money, sometimes for the professional association, and always for the love of language. I think and learn in language; I discover what I think...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 25, 2014 | Living in Place
I participated in a Freelancer’s Roundtable on WordPress’s Daily Post last week, Beyond Blogging: Freelancing, Getting Paid to Write, and Writing for Free. Of course, I was flattered to be asked, even though I do very little freelance writing anymore. Nevertheless, I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 11, 2014 | Living in Place
I’ve been working Ellen, a novel, for well over two years, and the drafts are now coming thick and fast. I just finished another, one that’s finally finished enough for my first reader – who wept at the opening, it’s that good. But it’s still not finished....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 25, 2014 | Living in Place
Even though I write full time, I still don’t have enough hours in a day. When I worked at other jobs, when my kids were small and when I had even less time to write than I do know, that’s when I still believed I had all the time in the world to do...
